Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 23:51:46 -0700
From: Dan Koozer (dkoozer@pond.net)
Organization: Koozer Draws
To: "octa99@crrh.org
I missed the 5:00 o'clock news so I haven't been able to see (or hear)
what went on in the news conference. Even though I posted this event on
five lists on the internet there were only a handful of us there. We
were denied access to the Downtown Athletic Center where the news
conference was being held. There was a "list" and we weren't on it. I
confronted Sen Gordon Smith and Larry Campbell as they entered the
building. I told them that the public was being denied access to the
news conference. The just smiled but said nothing. Then I asked them if
they were afraid of the truth and Sen Smith waved a piece of paper in
the air and said, "I have the truth right here." as he went thought the
door. The place was crawling with law enforcement as I walked around
outside with my signs:
Oregon Assoc of Police Chiefs + Sen Gordon Smith = Clueless
Marijuana Prohibition Who's Profiting? Law Enforcement!
Do We Want Cops Writing Laws?
About all I can do now is write letters. I'm writing letters to the
newspaper, Sen Gordon Smith, 359 Dirkson Building, Washington, DC 20510
and the Oregon Association Chiefs of Police, 620 Main St, Lebanon,
Oregon 97335-3337.
Dan
***
Dan Koozer, President
Cannabis Liberation Society
PO Box 10957
Eugene, Oregon 97401
Voice Mail & Event Line: (541) 744-5744
http://www.efn.org/~cannlib/

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Warrant Needed For Heat-Seeking Search (UPI Recaps Last Week's Decision
By US Ninth Circuit Court Of Appeals)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 18:59:09 EDT
Originator: drctalk@drcnet.org
Sender: drctalk@drcnet.org
From: AMMO
To: Multiple recipients of list
Subject: Warrant needed for heat-seeking search
Tuesday April 14 2:42 PM EDT
Warrant needed for heat-seeking search
SAN FRANCISCO, April 14 (UPI) - The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals has
ruled that police must obtain a search warrant before ``entering'' a
person's home by scanning it with a heat-seeking device.
The case involved a marijuana-grower whose operation was, in part,
detected by a heat-radiation scan of his home. The court ruled the scan
violated the Constitution's Fourth Amendment ban on unreasonable search
and seizure.
Judge Robert Merhige wrote that the technique ``strips the sanctuary of
the home of one vital dimension of its security: the right to be let alone
from the arbitrary and discretionary monitoring of our actions by
government officials.''
The heat-seeking devices detect the heat from the high intensity lamps
used by pot-growers as a light source in their inside operations.
Such devices as Forward Looking Infrared or FLIR are used to find fleeing
suspects or people who are lost. They have extremely sensitive
photoelectric cells that can detect minute differences in the
temperatures of objects.
The court ruled in last week's opinion that the images that result from
scanning a home with an infrared device are sufficiently ``intimate'' as
to constitute a Fourth Amendment violation.
Copyright 1998 by United Press International.
All rights reserved.

Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 20:07:09 -0700
To: mapnews@mapinc.org
From: jwjohnson@netmagic.net (Joel W. Johnson)
Subject: MN: US CA: Zero Tolerance Suffers Setback
Sender: owner-mapnews@mapinc.org
Newshawk: John W.Black
Source: Orange County Register (CA)
Contact: letters@link.freedom.com
Website: http://www.ocregister.com/
Pubdate: Tue, 14 Apr 1998
Author: Brady Rhoades
ZERO TOLERANCE SUFFERS SETBACK
A judge rules that a Corona del Mar High senior was denied due process when
he was transferred to another school.
School districts, zero-tolerance drug policies could come under fire
statewide after a Monday court ruling.
Superior Court Judge Robert E. Thomas ruled that the Newport-Mesa School
District denied Ryan Huntsman due process when it transferred the Corona
del Mar High School senior to another school under the district's
8-year-old zero-tolerance policy.
"Districts might have to have a more spelled-out or detailed policy, as far
as what steps they need to take before a student is transferred or
expelled," said Doug Stone, director of communications for the state
Department of Education.
Zero tolerance, which has been upheld many times in court, could be in
jeopardy, said board President Jim Ferryman.
"Any parent who gets an attorney will challenge the district's policy,
which has been very effective in controlling drug use among students," said
board member Wendy Leece.
Huntsman, 18, was ordered to transfer to Newport Harbor High on Feb. 19,
one day after Newport Beach police allegedly confiscated drug paraphernalia
from his car near Corona del Mar High. Huntsman was cited for playing his
stereo too loudly. The police report - which states that a pipe and plastic
bag with trace amounts of marijuana were found - was sent to school
officials.
Accounts differ on whether Huntsman was driving from school.
Under the district's policy, a student can be transferred or expelled,
without a hearing, if found with drugs, alcohol or firearms on campus, at a
school-sanctioned event or while traveling to or from school.

From: "Randy Caine"
To:
Subject: Caine Court Date
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 17:24:56 -0700
Hello everyone,
I'm sorry to say but my trial has been delayed once more.
We were expecting to hear Judge Howard's findings in this case tomorrow
however we were notified at 4:30 pm today that she is ill and will need to
adjourn this matter.
We will be rescheduling the trial date tomorrow. Our hope is to conclude
this trial by next week. Will post that info when I get it.
Randy Caine

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Old Hippies Out Of Touch On Children's Drug Use ('The Scotsman'
Is So Out Of Touch It Suggests A Survey Of American Parents
By The Discredited Partnership For A Drug-Free America
Is Relevant To Its Readers)
Date: Tue, 14 Apr 1998 16:32:54 -0800
To: mapnews@mapinc.org
From: Olafur Brentmar
Subject: MN: UK: Old Hippies Out Of Touch On Children's Drug Use
Sender: owner-mapnews@mapinc.org
Newshawk: shug@shug.co.uk
Pubdate: Tue, 14 Apr 1998
Source: Scotsman (UK)
Contact: Letters_ts@scotsman.com
Author: Annette Witheridge in New York.
OLD HIPPIES OUT OF TOUCH ON CHILDREN'S DRUG USE
Baby boomers who frittered away the Sixties in a haze of marijuana smoke
cannot get to grips with their own children taking drugs.
Just like their parents a generation before, yesterday's hippies seem to
have forgotten what it was like to be young, according to a new study by
the Partnership for a Drug-Free America.
Even though youngsters are experimenting with drugs at an earlier age,
parents are burying their heads in the sand and convincing themselves that
their own children are not following in their footsteps.
"Boomers, many of whom have 'been there, done that', are surprisingly and
ironically out of step with the reality of drugs in their children's
lives," said Partnership president, Richard Bonnette. "Few sincerely
believe their children are exposed to drugs, that drugs are widely
available in the schools their children attend."
The poll, involving 9,000 youngsters, showed that parents were seriously
underestimating the availability of marijuana, their children's views of
the risks of drug-taking and whether their children's friends were smoking.
While 60 per cent of the baby boomers questioned admitted taking drugs in
their youth, they seem to be adopting a "do as I say, not as I did"
approach for their own offspring.
US schools have adopted a tough "say no" approach, lecturing children on
the dangers of drink, drugs and cigarettes. But the message does not seem
to be getting across when it comes to marijuana.
The study found that the number of children between nine and 12 who had
tried dope had gone up from 334,000 in 1993 to 571,000 last year.
Marijuana use among 13- to 16-year-olds remained stable, but 17- to
18-year-olds were using it more and more, almost half smoked regularly,
compared to 41 per cent in 1996.
But baby-boomers - named after the post-Second World War boom days when
teenagers had supposedly never had it so good - had a completely different
perspective when it came to their own children. Just 21 per cent of parents
thought their teenager had experimented with marijuana, while in reality 44
per cent of the teens said they actually had.
***
[Portland NORML notes - What better documentation could one offer
proving that prohibition increases forbidden behavior than the statistics
cited in this article and the article below, from CEDRO in The Netherlands?
Together they suggest that 44 percent of teens have used cannabis in America,
where penalties and hysteria are maximized, compared to at most 3 percent
in Holland, where even 16-year-olds can freely purchase cannabis
at coffeehouses without fear of arrest.]

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